Ed Gallagher CBE FREng (born 4 August 1944)[1] is a British scientist.
He was a council member of English Nature and chair of the Pesticides Forum which is part of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Gallagher was chief executive of the National Rivers Authority from 1992 until 1995 when it was subsumed into the Environment Agency (EA) of England and Wales.
In February 2008, Gallagher began coordinating a group that will produce a Review of the Indirect Effects of Biofuels.
This was done in the light of new evidence suggesting that an increasing demand for biofuels might indirectly cause carbon emissions because of land use change, and concerns that demand for biofuels may be driving food insecurity by causing food commodity price increases.